Turkish government jails editor on terror charges

Dangerous Reporting: A series of profiles about foreign journalists imprisoned, in hiding, or silenced by courts for reporting on the most sensitive subjects in their countries By NICOLE REISINGER Capital News Service COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – In 2011, Murat Sabuncu,…

U.S. pressure aids release of imprisoned Azeri journalist

Dangerous Reporting: A series of profiles about foreign journalists imprisoned, in hiding, or silenced by courts for reporting on the most sensitive subjects in their countries By HANNAH LANG Capital News Service COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – Several months before journalist…

Carrollton Ridge homeowner tethered to house by bad health

BALTIMORE–Dawn Ford sits in her wheelchair in the hallway of her rowhouse on the 600 block of South Smallwood Street, gazing up at the old painting of two horses grazing in a field, mountains rising in the background.

Russian occupiers silence Crimean journalist in court

Dangerous Reporting: A series of profiles about foreign journalists imprisoned, in hiding, or silenced by courts for reporting on the most sensitive subjects in their countries By MAEVE DUNIGAN Capital News Service COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – In the early morning…

Growing old means many changes

In sickness and in health, seniors are facing big challenges with a positive outlook and help from friends and family.

The value of a smile

In September, the Mission of Mercy Health Equity Festival in College Park drew people from across the state and beyond to receive dental care.

Baltimore’s asthma hot spots are poor, African-American neighborhoods with lots of empty houses

ZIP code 21223 in Southwest Baltimore’s Carrollton Ridge neighborhood — one the city’s poorest — is the worst asthma hot spot in Baltimore, a Capital News Service and Kaiser Health News analysis of Maryland hospital records found.

At home, in schools, on the street, the triggers for asthma lurk everywhere

Your home is meant to be a safe haven. But what happens when your refuge makes you sick?

Rare Carrollton Ridge homeowner tethered to her house by bad health

Dawn Ford sits in her wheelchair in the hallway of her rowhouse on the 600 block of South Smallwood Street, gazing up at the old painting of two horses grazing in a field, mountains rising in the background.

Landlords, tenants and city bureaucracy play role in housing problems

Kristina Way says that when rats were coming into her house from the vacant property next door, the landlord wouldn’t block up the hole under the kitchen cabinets that let them enter.